Part One
Trachea
Pharynx
What is the throat?
Patent
What is open?
Larynx
What is the voicebox?
Aorta
What is the largest artery in the body?
Deglutition
What is swallowing?
Diaphragm
Hernia
Sebum
What is the oily substance produced by sebaceous glands?
Plasma
What is the liquid portion of blood?
Pleura
What is the double-layered membrane surrounding each lung?
Accommodation
What is the normal adjustment of the eye to focus on objects?
Prepuce
What is the foreskin?
Refraction
What is the bending of light rays by the cornea?
Cirrhosis
What is chronic liver disease?
Viscera
What is internal organs?
Systole
Menarche
What is the beginning of the first menstrual period and ability to reproduce?
Micturition
What is the process of expelling urine?
Parturition
What is the act of giving birth?
Heparin
What is the anticoagulant found in blood and tissue cells?
What is a circular ring of muscle that constricts a passage or closes a natural opening?
What is the pacemaker of the heart?
Lymph
What is thin, watery fluid found within the lymphatic vessels and collected from tissues throughout the body?
Neurotransmitter
What is a chemical messenger released at the end of a nerve cell?